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There is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to get good returns by investing in talented soccer players in South Africa, the rest of Africa, and globally, without being either an agent or a soccer player. There are no precedents of this type of investment in South Africa but there definitely are in South America. Carlos Tevez [...]

Pitso Mosimane is the one of the few young local coaches who has joined the elite group of successful coaches in South Africa. The other one that comes to mind is Gavin Hunt of Supersport United. Like the rest of Africa, we seem to have a propensity to import coaches from overseas, with a few [...]

Patrice Motsepe publicly declared, a couple of years ago, that Sundowns would play their part for the country by providing Bafana Bafana with outstanding players for the World Cup. However, what has happened is actually the exact opposite because they have become the place where footballers’ careers die. The club’s policy of willy-nilly buying any [...]

The 2009 Confed Cup ended on a high as evidenced by the closing ceremony on the final day. Again, the VWV Consortium did not disappoint with a stunning show that equalled the very high standards of the opening ceremony. The visiting teams were all very satisfied with the organisation and very high standard of facilities [...]

Kaizer Motaung has done very well as a soccer entrepreneur by starting and growing Kaizer Chiefs into arguably the biggest soccer brand in the country. The same applies to John Comitis who owns Ajax Cape Town. He’s built this club into a sustainable long-term business with fantastic infrastructure. Patrice Motsepe is a mining entrepreneur who [...]

When I attended the Brazil Vs USA Confed Cup match at Loftus I couldn’t help admiring the Zakumi’s dance moves during half-time. However, I couldn’t help wondering how many average South Africans know who this character is. For those who don’t know, Zakumi is the official mascot for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. Unfortunately, if [...]

Everyone knows the serious problem we have in South Africa of fake replica shirts and other soccer merchandise denying football clubs and national teams of additional income rightly due to them. This is a problem particularly prevalent in the music industry. It is widely believed that this fake merchandise is largely manufactured by Asian criminals [...]

Watching the highlights during the Confed Cup, I couldn’t help noticing how quickly the producers are able to put together all the plays by an individual player or all the saves during a game, for instance. One can’t help noticing the very high level of methodology and accuracy of it all. A bit of research [...]

One of the greatest legacies that the 2010 FIFA World Cup will leave is the magnificent new Soccer City Stadium that will host among other games, the opening game and the final. Like Wembley in England, this stadium will be an icon and lasting image that the world will have of the FIFA showpiece. Inspired [...]

It’s impossible not to see and hear nears about how the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is imploding. At the heart of the matter is the R700 million the corporation has lost during the last financial year. The drama has included the resignation of the majority of the board members, the ongoing court dispute between [...]

Witbank now have a Premier Soccer League team in Mpumalanga Black Aces but unfortunately there are problems regarding the use of premier stadium in that city, the Witbank Stadium, otherwise known as the Johan Van Riebeeck Stadium. The cause of all the problems is the Pumas Rugby Union’s unwillingness to share this facility which is [...]